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Prison Simulator Prologue cover art

Prison Simulator Prologue

Baked Games · 2021-05-20

Steam

ActionRPGSimulation

Wanna find out what a prison riot looks like? Check a free stand-alone prologue for Prison Simulator. A story that is not available in the full game! Be warned: Police baton might not be enough to bring order to the prison halls.

3
playing now
89%
positive of 2.9k reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
bronze
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Free
steam price (US)

3 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 03:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 3 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 30 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~4/week).
  • · Review velocity down 36% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (961 reviews).
  • · Top 21% of 10,936 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-27

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
87787720212026Week of 2021-05-01: 877 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 84 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 351 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 43 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 332 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 42 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 182 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 128 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 111 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 292 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 31 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 35 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 34 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 45 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 41 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 35 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

702026-08-07 00:00 — 3 players2026-08-07 08:00 — 0 players2026-08-07 16:00 — 2 players2026-08-08 00:00 — 0 players2026-08-08 08:00 — 1 players2026-08-08 16:00 — 3 players2026-08-09 00:00 — 4 players2026-08-09 08:00 — 0 players2026-08-09 16:00 — 4 players2026-08-10 00:00 — 1 players2026-08-10 08:00 — 6 players2026-08-10 16:00 — 2 players2026-08-11 00:00 — 1 players2026-08-11 08:00 — 2 players2026-08-11 17:00 — 3 players2026-08-13 00:00 — 0 players2026-08-14 08:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 15:00 — 4 players2026-08-16 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-18 07:00 — 1 players2026-08-19 14:00 — 3 players2026-08-20 22:00 — 2 players2026-08-22 05:00 — 2 players2026-08-23 13:00 — 3 players2026-08-24 21:00 — 0 players2026-08-26 05:00 — 3 players2026-08-27 11:00 — 5 players2026-08-28 19:00 — 3 players2026-08-30 03:00 — 3 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Completion

15
achievements tracked
54.8%
earned "Let's take it"
21%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam WorkshopFamily Sharing

9 supported languages: English, Polish, Simplified Chinese, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Turkish, French, Russian

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)3,2087%15

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

FPSCrimeFunnyActionSandboxStealthAdventureRealisticOpen WorldSimulation

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.